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UK agency: 787 fire not caused by battery fault

Written By Unknown on Minggu, 14 Juli 2013 | 00.48

LONDON — A fire onboard an empty Boeing 787 aircraft at London's Heathrow Airport didn't appear to be caused by faulty batteries on the plane, a British investigative agency said Saturday.

Investors in Boeing, which calls its newest plane a Dreamliner, had feared that Friday's blaze meant that the battery problem that had grounded the whole fleet of such planes in January had not been fixed. News of the fire sent Boeing shares down 4.7 percent on Friday.

Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch said Saturday there was "no evidence of a direct causal relationship" between the Dreamliner's batteries and the fire.

"There has been extensive heat damage in the upper portion of the rear fuselage, a complex part of the aircraft ... it is clear that this heat damage is remote from the area in which the aircraft main and APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) batteries are located," it said in a statement.

Ethiopian Airlines said it is continuing to operate its fleet of 787s despite the investigation, which will take at least several more days to be completed.

The airline's chief executive, Tewolde Gebremariam, told The Associated Press on Saturday that there is "no flight safety issue" with the 787s and that Ethiopian Airlines, like other operators, hasn't made changes regarding the planes.

Friday's incident drew renewed attention to the future of Boeing's most technologically-advanced airliner and forced runways at Heathrow, one of the world's busiest airports, to shut down for nearly an hour.

In January, the Dreamliner was grounded for months following two incidents relating to overheating lithium-ion batteries on separate planes.


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Pittsfield man starts baseball bat company

PITTSFIELD  — Casey O'Donnell believes there's no sweeter sound than the crack a wooden bat makes when it connects with the leather hide and stitches of a baseball.

Perhaps that's why the 27-year-old entrepreneur began making custom baseball bats for players in the basement of his parent's Pittsfield home. But as O'Donnell tells it, the true reason for his avocation is far closer to the "American Dream," with his bats, hand-crafted in the city that includes the earliest known reference to "America's Pastime" in North America, emblazoned with the red, white and blue, and in the hands of high-level ball players.

At 9 years old, O'Donnell had just been cut from his Little League team, a moment that "devastated" the would-be ball player and bury his love of the game for nearly two decades.

O'Donnell studied music, playing bass and other instruments in several bands and eventually enrolled at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science.

But something felt off, unfinished, empty. Then it hit him. About three years ago he was watching his dad, Kevin O'Donnell, working in his shop making wooden fishing plugs.

Casey turned to his father and said, "hey Dad, think we can make a baseball bat?"

Wanting to support his son's passion, Kevin worked with his son, showing him everything he had learned about working with wood.

"More than anything I want to see him do what he loves," Kevin said of Casey. "Half of the battle of every day is getting up. It's a lot easier if you have a job to go to that you're passionate about."

The first bat he made turned out more like a club that the Flintstones cartoon character Bam Bam would wield, O'Donnell said. But it was a bat, and each one after the first one looked more polished as he honed his skills with his father as teacher, supporter and counselor.

His first customer was an easy sell. O'Donnell's best friend, Paul Procopio, was playing for the North Adams Steeplecats at the time and as soon as he heard Casey was making bats, he just had to have one. So O'Donnell went to work and created the first P22, which is named after his friend.

"His attention to detail is unbelievable. It was amazing to use something my best friend made and such an incredible product," Procopio said. "It's totally custom to what you like — smaller knob, bigger knob, smaller barrel, bigger barrel — it didn't matter, he can do it."

Word spread quickly of O'Donnell's bat making prowess and orders trickled in through word-of-mouth, but he didn't have a name for his company yet. He decided to name it "Odo," after the only nickname he's ever been given. The Odo Bat Co. was created.

O'Donnell's weekends during college were spent driving back to Pittsfield to make a bat or two, before driving back to Boston for class. His life has been full of maple, birch, ash and sawdust ever since.

"Nothing is more gratifying than seeing a guy at the plate, holding one of my bats in his hand ready to unload on a pitch," O'Donnell said. "Every time one of them breaks though, it feels like one of my limbs just broke."

A broken bat, however, might be just what O'Donnell needed to thrust his small business into a lifelong career.

Ryan Deitrich of the Pittsfield Suns was using one of O'Donnell's bats during a game recently when he swung at a fastball low and away and snapped it at the handle. He still managed to get a base hit.

Deitrich, who left the Suns after the team's game on July 4 to join his new teammates at Duke University, said he liked the broken bat so much that he knew he had to have more. So he ordered five bats from O'Donnell to take with him to North Carolina.

"I used a lot of big name bats but they're not always a high quality wood they use," he said. "Casey is able to give me custom spec bats. He's able to cut them down to the exact length, weight, barrel size and handle size I like."

O'Donnell also specializes in "bone rubbing" — using a cow's bone to give the bat a smoother finish and compressing the wood — to each of the bats. Deitrich said that method gives the batter a higher percentage for making a hit.

"It feels better coming off the barrel," he said. "If you don't square one up, it gives you a little more room for error to still make good contact and get a hit."

It takes O'Donnell about three days to make a bat from start to finish, he said. He also staggers the process, turning out four or five bats in each cycle.

O'Donnell plans to keep the production of bats in his parent's basement for the next year or so while he saves up enough money to rent a workspace in Pittsfield, his hometown, and the city where his business will remain no matter how big it gets.

"This is the American Dream," O'Donnell said. "Players want to support something local and it's very important for me to do it here in Pittsfield."


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Grants will help Mass. undersea "kites" project

BOSTON — Three Massachusetts research facilities are getting a boost from the federal government, including money to help find out if undersea "kites" can reliably produce renewable energy.

The National Science Foundation is awarding nearly $2 million to spur research projects in science and engineering.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute will receive more than $300,000 for a project looking at the harvesting of hydrokinetic energy using tethered undersea kites designed to take advantage of powerful tidal forces.

It's not the first attempt to plumb the oceans for renewable energy. Other undersea projects have relied on turbines.

Undersea power is attractive partly because tides are very predictable, compared to wind energy.

The other grants are going to unrelated projects by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which is getting two grants totaling about $1.4 million. Tufts University will receive $300,000.


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China scraps uranium processing plan after protest

BEIJING — Authorities in a southern Chinese city on Saturday scrapped a plan to build a uranium-processing plant, one day after hundreds of local residents protested against it because of safety concerns.

The city government of Heshan in Guangdong province said in an online statement that it would halt the 37 billion yuan ($6 billion) project by China National Nuclear Corp., which would have built facilities for uranium conversion and enrichment, and the manufacturing of nuclear fuel equipment.

"The people's government of the city of Heshan has decided to respect the public opinion and will not consider CNNC's Longwan industrial park project," read the one-line announcement.

CNNC could not be immediately reached for comment, but its plans are part of national efforts to reduce China's reliance on coal and to boost the use of clean energy.

In March, the corporation signed agreements with the Heshan government regarding both land use and investment for the industrial park, according to state media.

Saturday's announcement by the Heshan government came after hundreds of protesters paraded through the streets of Jiangmen on Friday, holding banners and wearing T-shirts with phrases opposing the project while chanting slogans. "Give us back our rural homes. We are against nuclear radiation," they shouted in scenes seen in television video.

Heshan is part of the greater Jiangmen area. The protest was in response to a risk evaluation report of the planned project, which was released July 4 with a 10-day public comment period. Critics say those reports usually are a formality designed to facilitate approval.

Local officials initially responded by extending the consultation period by another 10 days, but by Saturday morning they said the plan was scrapped.

Increasingly aware of environmental safety, members of the Chinese public have been taking to the streets to oppose environmentally risky projects, and local governments have yielded under public pressure in some cases — by scrapping the projects, postponing them or relocating them.

Those unsanctioned protests — which can turn violent — have become a major source of social unrest in China and pose a challenge to local governments that must balance between maintaining social order and boosting economic growth.

The Jiangshan incident also shows that environmental disputes usually get solved in streets instead of town halls. Environmentalists have long called on local governments to take steps allowing for greater transparency and better public involvement when introducing projects that may be environmentally risky.


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Judge to mull if airlines owe WTC owners over 9/11

NEW YORK — A judge who has presided over most of the litigation stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks will decide whether the owners of the World Trade Center can try to make aviation companies pay billions of dollars in damages.

U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said he will announce his decision immediately after hearing several witnesses and listening to arguments in a nonjury trial starting Monday and expected to last three days.

The trial will decide whether World Trade Center Properties and its affiliates can receive more than the $4.9 billion in insurance proceeds they have already recovered since the 9/11 attacks by terrorists who hijacked commercial airliners and flew them into the 110-story twin towers. The attacks led to the destruction of the towers as well as a third trade center building.

If the judge should decide that the World Trade Center owners were entitled to additional money, a liability trial might occur. The defendants include American Airlines Inc., AMR Corp., United Airlines Inc., US Airways Inc., Colgan Air Inc., Boeing Co. and the Massachusetts Port Authority, among others.

The airlines and other aviation-related companies were sued with the reasoning that they were negligent, allowing terrorists to board airplanes and overtake their crews before plunging the planes into the trade center complex, destroying three buildings.

Hellerstein has already said the maximum the trade center owners could recover from aviation defendants would be $3.5 billion. The trade center owners say it has cost more than $7 billion to replace the twin towers and more than $1 billion to replace the third trade center building that fell.

In court papers, both sides have accused the other of unfairly characterizing their claims, with the aviation defendants saying the trade center owners were being "absurd" and the complex's owners labeling some of the aviation defendants' arguments as "nonsense."

The aviation defendants say Hellerstein should conclude that the trade center owners are entitled to no award because they've already been reimbursed by insurance companies for the same damage they are trying to force aviation defendants to pay for as well. They also note that the replacement buildings are more modern and fancy than the original buildings.

Of the 7 World Trade Center building — the first to be rebuilt after the attacks — the lawyers wrote that the trade center owners "built a new, state of the art 'green' building that bears little resemblance to the office building that collapsed as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."

They said they plan to call only two witnesses: an expert on law and economics and an expert in the adjustment of insurance claims. Additional evidence they will introduce will include leases, insurance policies, proof of loss, communications between trade center leaseholders and their insurers, and financial statements.

In their court papers, the trade center's owners insist that recovering money from aviation defendants would not result in a "double recovery" because of the billions they've already received from insurers. And they note that their rebuilding costs "far exceed" what they've received from insurers.


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Across tobacco country, crops wilt from rain

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jason Elliott had one of his best stands of burley tobacco growing until the rains started. Five days and seven inches of precipitation later, about a quarter of his crop was ruined, trimming thousands of dollars from his payday when he hauls his leaf to market in a few months.

Fields all over tobacco country have been soaked, and without a good stretch of dry weather in coming weeks, Elliott's predicament could play out many times over. In Kentucky alone, the nation's second-leading producer, the toll could hit as much as $100 million if the crop doesn't rebound. More than half of top grower North Carolina's crop is in jeopardy.

It threatens to become the latest setback for a sector of agriculture that has endured sluggish prices, higher production costs and uncertain markets due to smoking bans.

In Kentucky, the thunderstorms that started two days before Independence Day and continued into the weekend caused tobacco plants to wilt and collapse about a month before burley harvest shifts into high gear. Some of the plants at Elliott's Lincoln County farm slumped over, barely boot-top high. Others stood but looked sickly.

"It's just got a real pale color to it," Elliott said. "It doesn't have the good green tobacco color that it should have."

Damage appeared to be heaviest in south-central Kentucky, a prime burley tobacco region where as much as 60 percent to 80 percent of the crop was affected, said Bob Pearce, a University of Kentucky burley extension specialist.

"This is the most widespread and significant amount of damage I've seen from a single event like this," Pearce said. "The number of (damage) reports that I'm getting is kind of unprecedented. It's been a game-changer."

Kentucky is the nation's leading producer of burley tobacco, an ingredient in many cigarettes. Based on last year's prices, the downpours could cut the statewide yield by up to 25 percent, Pearce said.

Rain gauges have been overflowing as well in North Carolina, where flue-cured tobacco reigns.

Kent Revels, who grows flue-cured tobacco in Harnett County, N.C., said he's measured more than 30 inches of rain since May 1, with 17 in June — when the average is just over 3 inches. Rains has continued into July.

"We're doing the things we normally do," said Revels, who farms 260 acres of tobacco. "We're just fighting the rain to do it. I'm not throwing in the towel, but it's going to be a short crop. It all depends on what the weather will be from here on out."

North Carolina farmers planted 170,000 acres of tobacco in 2013, up 4 percent from 2012, said state Agriculture Department spokesman Brian Long.

In Kentucky, burley growers planted an estimated 78,000 acres this year, a 4,000-acre increase from a year ago, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service's field office in the state.

Tobacco is known as a resilient crop, and the roots can dry out if the rain stops. But so much rain makes for a thinner crop that doesn't weigh as much as it should, and the marketing system is based on dollars per pounds.

Regional agronomist Don Nicholson estimated that up to 80 percent of North Carolina tobacco farmers will be able "to turn this crop around" with a stretch of normal summer temperatures and dry conditions.

"That's one of the wonderful things about tobacco," he said. "You can't count the plant out until you destroy the crop. It can be extremely dry and you get a few rains and you can make a crop. Or it can be really wet and it gets dry, and the plants put a root system down."

In Tennessee, yields will be down from a year ago due to a wet spring and early summer, said Bob Miller, a tobacco researcher for UK and the University of Tennessee.

"We've had way more water than tobacco likes," Miller said.

In Virginia, the nation's No. 3 tobacco producer and home to Marlboro maker Philip Morris USA, the rainy conditions prevented tobacco plants from setting deep roots.

"In terms of damage or loss, we haven't lost very much. It's been limited," said David Reed from Virginia Tech's Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center. "We're going to be OK unless it absolutely turns off dry in August."

Despite the plants being shallow-rooted and having a thin leaf, Virginia has the potential for a good crop, he said.

The prospect of lower yields in Kentucky comes as burley farmers hoped to reap some of their highest leaf prices since the 2004 tobacco buyout. The buyout ended a system in which tobacco growers sold their crop under federal production and price controls dating back to the Depression. Tobacco now is mostly grown under contracts between farmers and tobacco companies.

Last year's burley and dark tobacco crops in Kentucky exceeded $400 million in sales for the first time since the buyout. And until the recent wave of rainfall, this year's crops had the same potential due to burley prices expected to be around $2 per pound, said UK agricultural economist Will Snell.

For Elliott, the 34-year-old who farms the same ground tended by his grandfather and father, tobacco accounts for nearly a third of his income from a diversified operation that includes cattle, corn and soybeans. While his tobacco has suffered from the rains, his corn and soybeans have thrived, a trend being seen across most of Kentucky.

Elliott said he will still plant burley next year, regardless the outcome this year.

"It's been too good to me over the years," he said. "I can't just up and quit."

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Waggoner reported from Raleigh, N.C. She can be reached at http://twitter.com/mjwaggonernc. Associated Press writers Michael Felberbaum in Richmond, Va., and Randall Dickerson in Nashville, Tenn., also contributed to this report.


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New England's love affair with natural gas cools

MONTPELIER, Vt. — New England's love affair with natural gas appears to be showing strain as the regional power grid operator voices worry about too much demand on limited supplies and a leading environmental group criticizes the fuel it once supported.

The changing mood follows more than a decade of explosive growth in the use of natural gas to heat and especially to power the six-state region's homes and businesses. Natural gas industry leaders say they are poised for continued rapid growth despite the warning bells being rung in other quarters.

In 2000, about 15 percent of New England's electricity was produced at generating stations that burned natural gas; in 2012, that number had grown to 52 percent, according to ISO-New England, the independent system operator that manages the regional power grid.

ISO-New England spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg said this past week that the organization is in the midst of a major study to determine if the region's power grid has become too reliant on natural gas and, if so, what might be done to address the issue.

Gordon van Welie, the grid operator's CEO, testified recently before a U.S. Senate committee that the key natural gas supply issue is the limited capacity of pipelines carrying the fuel into New England. Twice this past winter, during a cold snap in late January and a blizzard in early February, competing demand for gas for other uses, including home heating, meant power generators had difficulty getting the supplies they needed, van Welie said.

"And we were very close to the edge of reliability in very poor weather circumstances," van Welie said at a May 14 hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. "As a system operator, that makes us very nervous and we want to solve that problem as quickly as we possibly can."

Dan Whitten, spokesman for the Washington-based America's Natural Gas Alliance, said it appears that New England's real problem with natural gas is that it can't get enough.

Meanwhile, the Conservation Law Foundation, whose affiliate CLF Ventures was an active partner in a gas-fired power plant in Londonderry, N.H., that went fully operational in 2002, now is trying to block Vermont Gas Systems from extending a gas pipeline from the area of northwestern Vermont that it currently serves southward along the western side of the state.

CLF, which is based in Boston and has offices around the region, won praise from the New Hampshire project's lead developer for helping win public acceptance of it. "CLF Ventures provided a much needed calming voice. Their credibility was a real asset," Roger Sant, since retired as chairman of AES Corp., is quoted on the CLF Ventures website as saying.

But in Vermont Public Service Board proceedings on Vermont Gas Systems' Addison Pipeline project, a CLF expert, Elizabeth Stanton of Cambridge, Mass.-based Synapse Energy Economics, rebutted Vermont Gas Systems' claim that the project would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On the contrary, Stanton testified, any savings from using cleaner-burning gas over heating oil in homes and businesses along the route would be more than offset by pipeline leaks of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.

CLF senior attorney Sandra Levine said in an interview that even at the height of its support for natural gas in the late 1990s, CLF considered it a "transitional fuel," useful for getting New England to use less coal and oil. Eventually, natural gas, a fossil fuel that produces greenhouse gases, should be replaced by renewable energy sources, and CLF is pushing in that direction, she said.

Pipelines and power plants are infrastructure designed to last 30 to 50 years. CLF is unlikely to support more such projects because they would lock New England into natural gas until the latter half of this century, she said.

"Gas has already helped us as a region move away from coal," Levine said. "The transition we need now is to move away from fossil fuels."

Levine also noted concern about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a hotly debated method for gas extraction that many environmentalists blame for contaminating water supplies. Vermont banned fracking last year, a move widely seen as symbolic since the state has no known natural gas deposits within its borders.

Thomas Kiley, president of the Northeast Gas Association, said the use of natural gas hasn't peaked in New England yet. But state governments, including those in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont, have gone on the record to support expansion.

When Vermont Gas announced last week that it was expanding its system eastward to Enosburg Falls, allowing homeowners to tap into a heating fuel that could save them up to $2,000 over the cost of heating oil, Gov. Peter Shumlin called it "great news for residents and business owners alike."

Companies wouldn't be expanding systems if they didn't see pent-up customer demand, Kiley said. "It's interesting that the state that bans fracking wants the benefits of low prices, or at least the customers do," he said.


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NYC case casts light on West African mining fight

NEW YORK — While the FBI eavesdropped on Frederic Cilins this year, prosecutors say the Frenchman sometimes dropped his voice to an urgent whisper. They also say his words, though quiet, spoke volumes about a criminal case full of international intrigue.

"You must destroy everything, everything, everything," Cilins allegedly instructed the wife of a deceased president of Guinea now living in Jacksonville, Fla.

The secretly recorded conversation is recounted in filings in federal court in Manhattan that detailed for the first time how, in the midst of an ongoing grand jury investigation, the FBI began tracking Cilins and his role as a globe-trotting emissary for wealthy Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz.

Cilins, who was arrested in Jacksonville in April, has pleaded not guilty to U.S. charges that he was dispatched to Florida to convince the president's widow to destroy paperwork in her possession that, if made public, would expose how Beny Steinmetz Global Resources bribed officials in the impoverished West African nation to gain iron ore rights that the company turned into a multibillion-dollar windfall.

The Guernsey-based BSGR — billed on its website as a "diversified natural resource business" that employs 6,000 people on four continents — has vehemently denied any wrongdoing. The company "has never paid any money as bribes or blackmail," it said in a statement from its London office.

It added: "We have no reason to believe that Mr Steinmetz is under investigation in the US or elsewhere. Mr Steinmetz is a hugely respected businessman who has operated in dozens of countries for 35 years and has faced no evidenced allegations anywhere."

An FBI spokesman in New York declined to comment.

The controversy over the mining rights began in 2010, when current Guinea President Alpha Conde took office and began trying to undo a deal made by a previous administration with a reputation for corruption. BSGR has pushed back, claiming the project was legitimate.

A recent New Yorker magazine article described a 2011 meeting between Conde and Steinmetz in which Steinmetz asked, "Why are you against us?" Conde responded, "I have no personal problem with you. But I have to defend the interests of Guinea."

Caught in the middle is Cilins, described in defense documents as an honest family man from Antibes who spends "a significant amount of time" at a Miami synagogue when in the United States.

Cilins, 50, "is a successful businessman, buying and selling goods and service, as well as acting as a middleman in commercial transactions in Europe, Africa and South America," the papers say.

BSGR has said that "lacking a permanent presence in Guinea," it brought in Cilins because of his "extensive business operations" there.

Cilins claims that after the mining rights were secured, BSGR became the victim of a plot by Mamadie Toure — identified by U.S. authorities as the fourth wife of the deceased Guinea president — to use forged contracts to extort the company.

His phone calls and meetings with Toure were meant "to obtain these false documents so that he and BSGR and others could no longer be blackmailed or extorted," according to the defense. His lawyers have also questioned whether Toure was ever married to the president and suggested the U.S. investigation was prompted by a meeting between Conde and President Barack Obama, calling the case "politically motivated."

Prosecutors paint a much different picture. Toure's story, they insist, is credible. Attempts by The Associated Press to contact Toure were unsuccessful.

Toure, who began working with the FBI in March in hopes of gaining immunity in the U.S. case, had told investigators that while her husband was in power, Cilins and others secretly promised millions of dollars to her and government officials if they helped BSGR win over the president, prosecutors say in court papers that identify her only as a cooperating witness.

Prosecutors say the widow had proof: contracts — in French and titled "Portocole D'Accord" and "Lettre D'Engagement" — between her and BSGR that promised her $2 million in advance and $5 million more if the mining rights were granted. After agreeing to cooperate in the probe, Toure purposely tried to spook Cilins by telling him the FBI was closing in and wanted her to turn over the contracts to the grand jury.

"We need to urgently, urgently, urgently destroy all of this," he allegedly responded in one of many conversations monitored by the FBI.

Cilins assured Toure that he had the blessing and funding from someone prosecutors label a co-conspirator but only identify as a "high-ranking individual" at BSGR.

"What I was asked to do is to watch when the documents are destroyed ... to be 100 percent sure that everything is destroyed and that nothing is dispersed," Cilins said in a whisper, according to prosecutors.

Cilins offered to give Toure $1 million once he witnessed the burning of the contracts, the papers say. But he also insisted she sign a sworn statement saying she never received money from BSGR and never intervened on its behalf in the Guinea mining deal.

FBI agents arrested Cilins at a Jacksonville airport after he and Toures met one last time. Agents discovered he was carrying more than $20,000 in cash.


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Obama and ESPN commentators play golf in Virginia

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hitting the links with two ESPN commentators.

The White House said sports commentators Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser (KORN'-hy-zer) were in the president's golfing party Saturday. The fourth player was not identified.

Obama is playing at the Army's Fort Belvoir in Virginia, south of Washington. The president is an avid sports fan and viewer of ESPN programming.


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French Jewish group: Twitter gives data in case

PARIS — A French Jewish group says Twitter has turned over information that can help identify the authors of racist and anti-Semitic tweets that carried French hashtags.

The president of a Jewish student organization said Saturday the group was withdrawing a $50 million lawsuit against San Francisco-based Twitter Inc., originally filed as a means to pressure the company to comply and "end Twitter's indifference."

Jonathan Hayoun, of the Union of Jewish Students of France, said, "We obtained that Twitter respect the laws of our country."

In January, a Paris court ordered Twitter to turn over data that could help identify account holders who posted the tweets last fall that included slurs and photos evoking the Holocaust.

A joint statement issued Friday says Twitter gave the Paris prosecutor the information.


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